Definitions for GNU

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GNU gnu

Spelling: [noo, nyoo]

IPA: /nu, nyu/

Gnu is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in GNU (gnu).

Definitions for GNU

noun

1. either of two stocky, oxlike antelopes of the genus Connochaetes, the silver-gray, white-bearded C. taurinus of the eastern African plain and the black, white-tailed C. gnou of central South Africa: recently near extinction, the South African gnu is now protected.

Origin of GNU

1770-80; Khoikhoi, first recorded as t’gnu; probably to be identified with ǂnû black, as applying orig. to the black wildebeest

Examples for GNU

The lads rushed forward, eager to obtain some of the flesh of the gnu.

But Mrs. gnu continued to be like Rachel, and Mr. Boosey continued to try to amuse her.

Well, Mrs. gnu, upon my honor, it is no epicure to try to console you.

By the by, did you know that Mrs. gnu had actually bought the blue velvet?

Suddenly he touches one with the gnu's tail which he carries in his hand.

So that altogether the gnu cannot be considered as a handsome animal!

As he said this he looked fixedly at Mrs. gnu, and there was not quite so much laughing.

Mrs. gnu declined: but I knew mamma would let me go with the Potiphars.

gnu is from the Hottentots, and giraffe from the Arabic zaraf.

For instance, there's the animal that has been called the gnu.